A Global History of Anti-slavery Politics in the Nineteenth Century

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction: The Global Reach of Abolitionism in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 1-16
“Liberté, Indépendance”: Haitian Anti-slavery and National Independence....Pages 17-36
“A Most Promising Field for Future Usefulness”: The Church Missionary Society and the Liberated Africans of Sierra Leone....Pages 37-58
Debating Slavery and Empire: The United States, Britain and the World’s Anti-slavery Convention of 1840....Pages 59-77
The Political as Personal: Transatlantic Abolitionism c. 1833–67....Pages 78-96
Autocratic Abolitionists: Tsarist Russian Anti-slavery Campaigns....Pages 97-116
Abolition and Anti-slavery in the Ottoman Empire: A Case to Answer?....Pages 117-136
Anti-slavery in Spain and Its Colonies, 1808–86....Pages 137-148
The Anti-slave Trade Campaign in Europe, 1888–90....Pages 149-170
The Invasion of the United States by an Englishman: E. D. Morel and the Anglo-American Intervention in the Congo....Pages 171-197
The Slave Trade, Slavery, and Abolitionism: The Unfinished Debate in France....Pages 198-213
Transformations in the Law Concerning Slavery: Legacies of the Nineteenth Century Anti-slavery Movement....Pages 214-236
Back Matter....Pages 237-254